PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Willard Van Orman Quine, Rudolf Carnap, Logical Truth
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[1] there are two main streams of philosophy nowadays: (a) analytic philosophy, sometimes called anglo-american philosophy; (b) continental philosophy. The distinction was one ide- ological, stemming from different views about how philosophy should be done and what histor- ical philosophers are to be taken seriously, though now the difference is largely a matter of style and in uence. Analytic philosophy was born in the project of analysis", the thought that we can gain clarity by analyzing our concepts or perhaps our language. [2] willard van orman quine (1908 2000): philosophy in the academy, and one of the most famous philosophers of the middle of the 20th century. His article two dogmas of empiri- cism is one of the classics of analytic philosophy, engaging with its preferred past (empiricism) and attempting to go beyond it. Nietzschean thought, tries to update the traditions with a greater awareness of the social and historical context for philosophical questions.
